Tierramerica

Ecobreves – THE AMERICAS: Ag Experts Meet in Costa Rica

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Agriculture specialists from Latin America and the United States are gathering in the Costa Rican capital Mar 19-21 to discuss financial mechanisms and strategies to help small farmers prosper, but without harming the environment.
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Puebla – Moment of Truth for FTAA

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The most sensitive point in the FTAA negotiations, which get underway Monday in this Mexican city, is defining the timeline for the liberalization of the markets of the Americas.

Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR: Wanted: Commitment to Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Environmental organizations in El Salvador are asking legislative candidates to sign a pledge to resolve the country's water supply problems without harming the environment and with the participation of civil society.

“We must listen to the desert”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"The desert is sending a strong message about the environment because it is advancing towards the south, it is devouring all that is green," said Chilean author Hernán Rivera Letelier, whose novels about the Pampa, in the country's extreme north, report brisk sales in Europe.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Forestry Law Fires Debate

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Agro-Forestry Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups, say the changes made to the forestry law -- currently being debated by the Honduran Congress -- would be detrimental to the country's woodlands.
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Landmines

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Anti-personnel landmines are deadly devices that, hidden underground, lie in wait of victims. Each year, thousands of innocent people are maimed or killed by these "conventional weapons", lethal objects whose threat is not diminished at the end of a war. Although there is a major international effort to eliminate landmines, the menace persists.
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IN THE XXI CENTURY POVERTY STILL HAS A WOMAN'S FACE

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Significant progress has been made in our time fighting discrimination against women and working for equal rights and the full participation of women in the development of communities and nations, indeed of our entire globalised world, writes Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Heath Organisation.

Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR: Costly Elimination of Outdated Herbicide

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Transporting and incinerating 92 barrels of old toxaphene herbicide in the eastern Salvadoran city of San Miguel will cost around 50,000 dollars, a government source told Tierramérica.

New York Obsessed with Height

By Haider Rizvi and - -
The question of whether the project to rebuild the World Trade Center is environmentally viable or compatible does not seem to be on the minds of city authorities or of the architects.
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Central America's Suffocating Cities

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The level of solid particles in the air in several Central American capitals violates international health standards.
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Drought

By IPS Correspondents and - -
When we say the word "drought" we think of what is lacking: water. And images are brought to mind of its consequences, which can be devastating to the environment, to the economy and to human life.

Ecobreves – Save the Birds

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts from North America are meeting Mar 10-11 in Mexico to evaluate how well bird conservation programs in the region are tackling the threats of habitat degradation.

Ecobreves – PERU: Cleaning La Oroya

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peruvian authorities have pledged to help a U.S.-based metal manufacturer, Doe Run Resources, in cleaning up the contamination that has affected the central city of La Oroya for the past two decades.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Restoring the Magdalena River

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Restoring the environment and navigation capacity of the Magdalena River, Colombia's largest, is being studied this week by representatives of the government, and of the transportation and industrial sectors in the capital.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Return of the 'Pejerrey' Fish

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Japan will assist in restoring the population of pejerrey fish in an Argentine lake, the same from which Japanese producers extracted embryos of the species in 1966 to raise -- successfully -- in their own country.
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An Appeal to Double Expenditures on Water

By Suvendrini Kakuchi and - -
"Blue gold" returns to the center of international debate March 16-23, at the 3rd World Water Forum, in Japan. The host country is urging all nations to double financial and technical assistance to ensure safe water supplies. But will the world be willing to go that far?

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Book Boat Cannot Dump Garbage at Sea

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The "book boat" Logos II will not be allowed to dump solid waste in the waters of Quetzal port, on the Pacific. The ship is to anchor there Mar 18 to Apr 7 to sell books, Lourdes Gálvez, Guatemala's environment ministry spokeswoman, told Tierramérica.

Aphrodisiac Market Fuels Killing of Sea Lions

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Despite their corpulence, sea lions are very vulnerable. Their fins are useless in protecting them from poachers who bludgeon the males to death to extract their genitals to be sold in Asia, where they are considered an aphrodisiac by some cultures.

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: More Education for Bosawas Reserve

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- The Central American Economic Integration Bank granted the Nicaraguan government a loan of 1.7 million dollars to expand educational services in the northern biosphere reserve of Bosawas and to improve the living conditions of the local population.
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José Saramago:

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The anti-war spirit of Portuguese writer José Saramago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, has scandalized the public more than once. He has called for silencing the drums of war in the Mexican state of Chiapas and in Palestine, the latter of which he compared to Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust.
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Banana Diseases

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The banana is a crucial fruit for human beings. But the production of this food -- essential for hundreds of millions of people around the world -- is faced with the serious threat of plagues, particularly the black sigatoka fungus and Panama disease.
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